Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandates that employers today identify themselves as "equal opportunity employers" and "provide extensive diversity and antidiscrimination training for managers and supervisors to eliminate the potential for discriminatory decision making." (Ford & Harrison LLP, 2006) Most employers proudly display this.
Nevertheless, managers and supervisors frequently allow unlawful bias to unduly influence their decisions even though they may not even realize it. Decision makers may indeed harbor "unconscious biases" based on race, gender, and ethnicity that unduly influence their decisions.
There is also evidence that modern forms of discrimination derive from in-group favoritism as well as from out-group exclusion or devaluation. People have a fundamental need to feel positive about them and often favor members of their own group to raise their self-esteem. Moreover, recent research and theory suggests that in certain contexts out-group members......
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